Gloria P wrote:

> A local TV station did a story on college recycling in Boulder after
> summer school ended. It showed kids in station wagons pulling up
> and retrieving things like expensive skis, TVs, computer monitors,
> loads of furniture, etc.
>
> One of the summer school kids said "I had no way to get the stuff home
> so I had to just pitch it."

Military barracks are like that too. Soldiers who have their own
microwaves or small appliances, ironing boards and the like will toss
them when they transfer to a new duty station.
One thing I liked about one military post overseas was that they
accepted opened, half used containers of household cleaners or chemicals
and such so anyone who needed something on arrival could pick up a
donated can of oven cleaner or whatever and it wouldn't go into the
landfill.